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And the Walls Came Down

Denise Da Costa
3.91/5 (95 ratings)
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Back in the low-income Toronto neighbourhood where she was raised, a young woman rediscovers the importance of community, home, and finding one’s own voice.

Just before the demolition of her childhood home in east Toronto, Delia Ellis returns to retrieve her beloved diary. Using it as a compass, she rediscovers life as a precocious teen growing up in the nineties.

Delia’s writings reveal her anxieties following a move to Don Mount Court, a Toronto government housing complex, where she struggles to navigate life with an overprotective Jamaican mother and her father’s inept replacement, “Neville the nuisance.” Delia’s troubles compound when she enlists her naive younger sister in a scheme to reunite their parents and recapture the idealistic life she yearns for.

Yet, through the lens of adulthood, Delia’s entries take a wrecking ball to the perception of her parents’ love story she’d long built up in her mind, uncovering a child’s internalization of a failed marriage, poverty, and a mother come undone.
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1459750365
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9781459750364
kindle Asin:
B0B9WJ792S

And the Walls Came Down

Denise Da Costa
3.91/5 (95 ratings)
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Back in the low-income Toronto neighbourhood where she was raised, a young woman rediscovers the importance of community, home, and finding one’s own voice.

Just before the demolition of her childhood home in east Toronto, Delia Ellis returns to retrieve her beloved diary. Using it as a compass, she rediscovers life as a precocious teen growing up in the nineties.

Delia’s writings reveal her anxieties following a move to Don Mount Court, a Toronto government housing complex, where she struggles to navigate life with an overprotective Jamaican mother and her father’s inept replacement, “Neville the nuisance.” Delia’s troubles compound when she enlists her naive younger sister in a scheme to reunite their parents and recapture the idealistic life she yearns for.

Yet, through the lens of adulthood, Delia’s entries take a wrecking ball to the perception of her parents’ love story she’d long built up in her mind, uncovering a child’s internalization of a failed marriage, poverty, and a mother come undone.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1459750365
ISBN13:
9781459750364
kindle Asin:
B0B9WJ792S

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